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Amish Fruit Cake

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Course Dessert
Cuisine Amish

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • pinch of salt
  • ¾ cups sour cream
  • ¼ cup sour milk
  • 1 cup molasses
  • 1 cup nut meats
  • 1 cup prunes (cooked until tender then chopped fine)
  • 2 cups cooked raisins
  • ¼ teaspoon cloves
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 cup dates (chopped)
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon ginger

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 320.
  • In a large mixing bowl, dissolve baking powder and soda in sour milk.
  • Add cinnamon and ginger.
  • In a small saucepan cook prunes over high heat for 2 - 3 minutes until tender. Remove from the heat, mash them, and add them to the batter.
  • Repeat the same steps with the raisins, over high heat for 2 - 3 minutes, and then add to the batter.
  • Then add the rest of the ingredients in and mix well.
  • Divide the batter equally between two greased loaf pans.
  • Bake at 320 for 1 hour or till toothpick comes out clean.Other fruits may be substituted as dry apples, etc